She used the photos to remind her followers that there's no such thing as a perfect beach body.

Come beach season, we all have an insecurity or two — the pressure to have the perfect "bikini body" is strong and pretty outdated. For plus-size blogger Sarah Sapora, that self-doubt led her to avoid bikinis for 25 years. But recently, as Yahoo! Style reports, the 38-year-old finally faced her fears and wore a teensy-tiny turquoise string bikini for a body-positive photo shoot made in collaboration with Lane Bryant. Her powerful words are an important reminder that there is no such thing as a perfect bathing suit body.

On her blog, Sarah Plus Life, Sapora recalled the last time she wore a string bikini, writing,

"I was 13 years old at 'fat camp,'…[the bikini] wasn't even mine, I borrowed it from a counselor and wore it just long enough to lay on a towel by the tennis court during rest period for 45 minutes that single summer day. Someone snapped a photo of it. I remember seeing it once, but that's it. It's taken me 25 years to feel that free in my body again."

Sapora explained to Yahoo! Style that, while she has worn two-piece bathing suits since that day, they're always high-waisted two-pieces. She decided to do a photo shoot wearing a string bikini because, as she says, "there are so few representations of plus women just enjoying life without emphasis on their weight."

So, Sapora teamed up with Layne Bryant, who provided her with a Cacique printed turquoise string bikini that she jokes "was the size of a Scrunchie." She wore it proudly, modeling on a Malibu beach with a male friend, and later posted a few images from the shoot to Instagram. Captioning one, she wrote,

"Want to know something? Sit down for this, because this overweight, 38-year-old woman is about to drop a truth bomb. That anxiety you feel about who you are and what you look like? That fear you have that people are looking and going to laugh at you for dreaming big, being bold or coloring outside the lines? It's bananas. When you 'play small' in your life, nobody wins. Least of all you."

Sapora also encouraged her followers to "rock the damn boat," and live their best lives —a dvice we could all stand to listen to. It's too easy to get caught up in your own worries and insecurities. But, as Sapora writes, it's important to let those fears go, and stop worrying about what others may or may not think.

"We get one turn around this dance floor, folks," she writes. "There comes a time in your life when you realize it's time to play the music YOU like, and dance like nobody's watching."